No. The phone just has to be with you. And when you press the handle. It will unlock
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Tesla Model 3 in Australia
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Opticoat is VERY worth it from first impressions IMHO. ALL minor delivery scratches gone. The paint looks liquid glossy, deep and dark.
Anyone on the Gold Coast it’s worth visiting Phil at Squeaky Clean Detailing on the Gold Coast Squeaky Clean Detailing – The difference is in the detail
(No conflict of interest, just a happy customer)
Anyone on the Gold Coast it’s worth visiting Phil at Squeaky Clean Detailing on the Gold Coast Squeaky Clean Detailing – The difference is in the detail
(No conflict of interest, just a happy customer)
Yeah, they don’t seem to appreciate that people actually reorganise their lives around this. We actually need to know with certainty ahead of time what is going on. If there is a problem we need to know in a timely manner and we need to be informed why. Communication is not Tesla’s strong point.
We can only hope! Paid the money, but have had no contact since. Just a date and time in the online portal for 3PM tomorrow - hopefully!
SSSimon
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White on white P3+ scheduled for Canberra delivery 10am tomorrow - vin and delivery details exposed on manage page, looking through HTML I can see each of my several payments, no invoice received showing zero balance though, and no confirmation. I guess I'll just be out the front on a deck chair waiting... All rego paperwork done yesterday with Tesla final invoice and Tesla supplied 'vehicle purchased from an interstate dealer form'
As luck would have it my invoice turned up this week and the car is ready for delivery apparently. Unfortunately I had a business trip to Europe (just arrived Amsterdam today) and won’t be back until 8th October and they wouldn’t hold car as previously stated in posts. So two choices were to let this one go and they would allocate another one later in October (but not able to say when) or have someone else collect.
As much as I wanted to be there for delivery I’ve decider better to have then car sitting in my garage on return then going through the wait again. So spent the trip organising to have a friend pick it up.
Hopefully my mate will have no troubles with collecting it, have told him process is to just photograph any paint issues etc. Just hope he doesnt’t get the low brake fluid issue.
Mixed feelings overall but really just wanted the wait over too!
P3D- Midnight Silver. VIN4882XX
Reserve/Order 4th Feb 18/ 1st June 19
As much as I wanted to be there for delivery I’ve decider better to have then car sitting in my garage on return then going through the wait again. So spent the trip organising to have a friend pick it up.
Hopefully my mate will have no troubles with collecting it, have told him process is to just photograph any paint issues etc. Just hope he doesnt’t get the low brake fluid issue.
Mixed feelings overall but really just wanted the wait over too!
P3D- Midnight Silver. VIN4882XX
Reserve/Order 4th Feb 18/ 1st June 19
TeeThreee
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WoodWombat - good luck. Was in there (Richmond) this evening picking up my P3- (brilliant!). They are all frantically busy getting the existing orders out the door ASAP. There were about twenty Model 3's there visible (a mix of Black and White) and as I was pulling out another full car transporter of Model 3's was pulling in. Until 1 October I think the only way to get an answer is to visit a store in person (Richmond or Chadstone for Melburnians)
Are you lucky guys still gunna meet up at Majura on Sunday? I might stop by, but I can’t work out if it will be more painful as I’m still in club #VINLESS
On that actually, the “Manage” link on my account page now takes me directly to the “finalize” page (previously I had to use a URL from here to get to it), but still no VIN. Is this a change anyone else had/noticed?
White LR AWD, no res, ordered 21 Aug
Apparently you're covered for the first 100km so should be all good so long as he doesn't take it for a joy ride.
p.s. same spec and VIN range as mine, dammit, I have to wait till around October 17
Priit
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It appears the Brisbane delivery team is pushing for end of quarter. I just got a call after work today that even though I have scheduled delivery date next Monday, my car is ready tomorrow, so they wanted to know what time would work for me. Since I have previous engagements for most of the day, I asked how late I can come and we agreed for 6PM tomorrow then. Will be an interesting weekend.
I only got the correct invoice on Tuesday this week and finance approved Wednesday.
Apparently you're covered for the first 100km so should be all good so long as he doesn't take it for a joy ride.
p.s. same spec and VIN range as mine, dammit, I have to wait till around October 17
It’s funny as I am back on the 9th and I said if you do a swap can you tell me what dates I could pick up. But they said they couldn’t do that you would think they could have said there is one on the 17th if you want to swap?
WoodWombat
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Hmm, going to lunch in Abbotsford tomorrow, might come home via Richmond store. Might finally get someone to talk to me.
Thanks for the tip.
If I ever get the car tomorrow (as scheduled), I will bring it at Majura on Sunday at about 4 - 5 pm. Hopefully, I meet some of you there.
Hi Guys.
I picked up my SR+ on 12 of September, but I realised today the the wiper washer doesn't dispense any washer fluid. It appears it is empty and was never filled when delivered, but no warning light ever came on to indicate low level of washer fluid.
I did put a little bit of water in it today, but still no washer fluid is dispensed. I will have to full load it with water and see if works at all.
Can you check and confirm if the wiper does dispense any water or was it filled at all when delivered and if the you have seen any warning for washer fluid?
I picked up my SR+ on 12 of September, but I realised today the the wiper washer doesn't dispense any washer fluid. It appears it is empty and was never filled when delivered, but no warning light ever came on to indicate low level of washer fluid.
I did put a little bit of water in it today, but still no washer fluid is dispensed. I will have to full load it with water and see if works at all.
Can you check and confirm if the wiper does dispense any water or was it filled at all when delivered and if the you have seen any warning for washer fluid?
Took delivery today (Silver P3-, Brisbane, 4882XX). They definitely want you to just take the car and leave. Delivery specialist opened with something along the lines of "I don't really know much about the car, I'm just here to help you get in, comfortable, and out on the road".
Random thoughts:
Driving - pretty much what everyone else has said. If I had to pick a word to describe it, I'd go with "smooth". Was worried that a car with this much power would feel uncontrollable/difficult to finesse, but it's not. If you want to creep along at 1kph it'll do that. If you want to take off like a rocket it'll do that too. And it never confuses the two. The throttle response is perfect.
Driving at night - had a moment of panic when I looked inside the car and saw that none of the dashboard instruments were lit up. Then remembered that the car doesn't have any. Rear mirror visibility also felt a bit limited, which for whatever reason it didn't in daylight.
Major issues - after about 50kms a 'Charge port door sensor fault' warning appeared on the screen. Charge port seemed okay when I got home, although the up/down action was quite jerky. Now it no longer opens/closes under its own power (though luckily can be manually opened when unlocked).
Minor issues - submitted a few (all legitimately minor, aside from the charge-port thing):
Using the screen - it's fine, feels natural (though I need to learn what some of the icons mean).
Using the stalks - hit the gearshift once when I meant to indicate while traveling at highway speeds. The car beeped at me and nothing else happened. My wife did the same while driving at a slower speed. No beeps (or anything else).
Track mode - Edit: nevermind; car must be on and in park and then 'Track Mode' can be enabled just fine.
Fog lights - Edit: fog lights can be used when the car is on and in any gear; not usable when car is off (unlike all other lights, which can be used just fine while the car is off).
Software version - car delivered with '2019.32.2.2 (da05838)'
Stereo - definitely quite good for a car, though would rate it slightly below the hifi at home. The default balance put the sound a little too far forward for my liking, shifted it back a bit.
Range - Brisbane to Sunshine Coast with a brief detour for lunch took 23% (80% -> 57%).
Extra nitpicky - the media player forgets your position when playing off USB media if you reboot the screen (which I did to see if it would clear the charge-port warning...which it didn't); this issue bothered me so much on other platforms that I wrote a custom media player app for Android Auto specifically to get rid of this quirk.
Anyone else notice a significant increase in battery drain on their phone after pairing with the car?
Random thoughts:
Driving - pretty much what everyone else has said. If I had to pick a word to describe it, I'd go with "smooth". Was worried that a car with this much power would feel uncontrollable/difficult to finesse, but it's not. If you want to creep along at 1kph it'll do that. If you want to take off like a rocket it'll do that too. And it never confuses the two. The throttle response is perfect.
Driving at night - had a moment of panic when I looked inside the car and saw that none of the dashboard instruments were lit up. Then remembered that the car doesn't have any. Rear mirror visibility also felt a bit limited, which for whatever reason it didn't in daylight.
Major issues - after about 50kms a 'Charge port door sensor fault' warning appeared on the screen. Charge port seemed okay when I got home, although the up/down action was quite jerky. Now it no longer opens/closes under its own power (though luckily can be manually opened when unlocked).
Minor issues - submitted a few (all legitimately minor, aside from the charge-port thing):
Using the screen - it's fine, feels natural (though I need to learn what some of the icons mean).
Using the stalks - hit the gearshift once when I meant to indicate while traveling at highway speeds. The car beeped at me and nothing else happened. My wife did the same while driving at a slower speed. No beeps (or anything else).
Track mode - Edit: nevermind; car must be on and in park and then 'Track Mode' can be enabled just fine.
Fog lights - Edit: fog lights can be used when the car is on and in any gear; not usable when car is off (unlike all other lights, which can be used just fine while the car is off).
Software version - car delivered with '2019.32.2.2 (da05838)'
Stereo - definitely quite good for a car, though would rate it slightly below the hifi at home. The default balance put the sound a little too far forward for my liking, shifted it back a bit.
Range - Brisbane to Sunshine Coast with a brief detour for lunch took 23% (80% -> 57%).
Extra nitpicky - the media player forgets your position when playing off USB media if you reboot the screen (which I did to see if it would clear the charge-port warning...which it didn't); this issue bothered me so much on other platforms that I wrote a custom media player app for Android Auto specifically to get rid of this quirk.
Anyone else notice a significant increase in battery drain on their phone after pairing with the car?
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Priit
Active Member
So, if I remember correctly, somewhere a few hundred pages back someone mentioned that there may be some Tesla get together in Brisbane area. I was wondering when that was and if there was anything in Gold Coast area happening also. I will hopefully be getting my car tomorrow and would not mind getting some good advice and comparing mine to others in the area
OK, I have sent them an email, let’s see if they replyI guess there's only one way to find out
The P3- has 18” wheels, right? Basically identical to LR AWD except for acceleration / max speed specs (and the purported range difference might be not real...)?
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